Course Description: This course explores basic principles and techniques of administration which apply to criminal justice organizations. Emphasis is placed on decision making, authority, human relations and communications within organizations.
The course combines theory, research, policy, and practical experience. The course begins with a history of policing, emergent challenges, and reforms to the profession. Assessments of recruitment, socialization, and organization emphasize who the police are, what they do, and how police culture affects officers.
The course examines policing in terms of patterns and trends that have emerged over different periods of time. Supreme Court cases relative to Fourth Amendments are explored in a time line showing how the Supreme Court interprets the U.S. Constitution and influences how the criminal justice system addresses legislative policy and enforcement of laws.
Growing threats to national security are assessed with examination of domestic extremist groups and terrorism from abroad. The course also examines new threats to public order including mass shootings, violence against police, weapons of mass destruction, bioterrorism, cybercrime, hostage taking and an expanding criminal enterprise for drugs, prostitution and human trafficking.
The course combines theory, research, policy, and practical experience. The course begins with a history of policing, emergent challenges, and reforms to the profession. Assessments of recruitment, socialization, and organization emphasize who the police are, what they do, and how police culture affects officers.
The course examines policing in terms of patterns and trends that have emerged over different periods of time. Supreme Court cases relative to Fourth Amendments are explored in a time line showing how the Supreme Court interprets the U.S. Constitution and influences how the criminal justice system addresses legislative policy and enforcement of laws.
Growing threats to national security are assessed with examination of domestic extremist groups and terrorism from abroad. The course also examines new threats to public order including mass shootings, violence against police, weapons of mass destruction, bioterrorism, cybercrime, hostage taking and an expanding criminal enterprise for drugs, prostitution and human trafficking.
- Faculty: Frank Tridico